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Revolut swaps Claude for a self-hosted open-weight model, cutting its AI coding bill ~10x

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reported by The Register (a Dealroom report puts the cut at 90%): the British fintech dropped Claude for a self-hosted Chinese open-weight GLM model for AI coding. A vendor-exit cost story, reported rather than independently measured — but it is a named, large deployer making the open-model cost argument in production.

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